Relationship management by means of solution-oriented questions in German psychodiagnostic interviews
The article addresses Solution-Oriented Questions (SOQs) as an interactional practice
for relationship management in psychodiagnostic interviews. Therapeutic alliance results from the concordance of alignment, as
willingness to cooperate regarding common goals, and of affiliation, as relationship based upon trust. SOQs particularly allow
for both: They are situated at the end of a troublesome topic area, which is linked to low agency on the patient’s side, and
they reveal understanding of and interest in the patient. Following the paradigm of Conversation Analysis and German Gesprächsanalyse this paper analyzes the design and functions of SOQs as a means for securing and
enhancing the relationship in the process of therapy. Our data comprise 15 videotaped first interviews following the manual of
the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics. The analyses refer to all SOQs found but will be illustrated by means of a
single conversation.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and method
- 3.Analyses
- Design
- Positioning and context
- Sequential organization and global development of relationship
- Positions 0–2
- Positions 3 and 4
- 4.Discussion
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Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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